The Emergence of Autocracy in Liberia: Tragedy and ChallengeInstitute for Contemporary Studies, 1992 - 418 halaman The book illuminates the political process that over the course of six generations brought about the personalization of authority in Liberia; and it links that system of personal rule to the highly centralized structures of the postcolonial state. The book concludes by exploring the future of self-govenance in Liberia and all of postcolonial Africa. The author became president of the Republic of Liberia after the civil war 1989-90. |
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Halaman 26
... told an associate , " When I consider what many others have effected for the benefit of their suffering fellow creatures at an earlier age than mine , I am humbled and mortified to think how little I have done " ( quoted in Staudenraus ...
... told an associate , " When I consider what many others have effected for the benefit of their suffering fellow creatures at an earlier age than mine , I am humbled and mortified to think how little I have done " ( quoted in Staudenraus ...
Halaman 87
... told , we have seen a complex situation in which the expansion of settler influence in the subregion was driven by a mix of motives . In the drive to establish settler domination , a mix of commercial motives , abolitionist imperatives ...
... told , we have seen a complex situation in which the expansion of settler influence in the subregion was driven by a mix of motives . In the drive to establish settler domination , a mix of commercial motives , abolitionist imperatives ...
Halaman 296
... told , while it is true that repression and social malaise were not first introduced into the Liberian society by the military junta government , these conditions became more intensified under military rule . Murder , torture , and ...
... told , while it is true that repression and social malaise were not first introduced into the Liberian society by the military junta government , these conditions became more intensified under military rule . Murder , torture , and ...
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Social Order and Constitutional Choice | 1 |
The Idea of Liberia | 13 |
Indigenous West African Social Orders | 43 |
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